eli5: how do you get cars into the second floor of a mall?

Question

i understand the first floor (or groundfloor idk) but the second and third? while the building is already made? pls explain

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Answer 1

For all the parts of a mall you see like the vast atriums and the fancy storefronts and the sprawling food courts there’s also parts you don’t see, of interconnected corridors and storage spaces connecting the backsides of the stores to allow for storage and transportation of merchandise without having to get everything through the areas the customers go through during off hours. There’s also large freight elevators used to carry large amounts of merchandise around. Often these elevators can fit and lift cars and are used when bringing up vehicles on higher floors. Alternatively if there’s a balcony on the higher floors the car may be lifted up there by a crane and driven inside at night but usually they just have elevators for this kind of stuff since malls are built with these things in mind.